1. BAM has unveiled two new bike racks designed by musician David Byrne especially for the Brooklyn arts institution. The blue racks feature interchangable letters, and currently form
the words "pink crown" and "micro lip." [via press release]

5. Cleopatra's, a gallery in Greenpoint operated by Bridget Donahue, Bridget Finn, Colleen Grennan and Erin Somerville, will be representing Brooklyn at the Shanghai Biennial, which starts this October. [via New York Observer]

6. A new species of spider, named the Trogloraptor, has been discovered in a cave in Oregon. [via World's Best Ever]